My first full night of sleep
Jaden actually slept through the night last night — hives and all. I’m not sure what happened. I was shocked when he woke us up at 6:30 a.m.. I immediately started running through my mind everything that I did yesterday with him – maybe I can repeat it?
What’s different? Well- I’ve been trying to get him down to only one nap a day since he was fighting the second nap for the past few weeks. He was taking his usual morning nap and then fighting me tooth and nail in the afternoon – until I’d finally give up. I figured if he only takes one nap then it should be an afternoon nap (according to Dr. Ferber), but he wasn’t making it through to the afternoon without difficulty. Yesterday I just went with the flow. He fell asleep on my lap around 10:00 a.m. for about 40 minutes. I watched Elmo by myself because I was afraid to change the channel. LOL. It worked, though. He made it through to his afternoon nap, and slept about an hour in the afternoon. So maybe that’s the trick… I’ll try it again today.
Who am I kidding? There’s no way to know what the heck helped him sleep through the night. It’s like trying to figure out what is giving him hives. The problem is — now my hopes are high that he’ll sleep through the night again tonight; but I know darn well the chances of that are slim to none. Ahhhh… motherhood. 
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